Dear Ben On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Ben Noordhuis <i...@bnoordhuis.nl> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 14:11, Zeno Davatz <zdav...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Apache on Windows serves all requests from a single process. >> >> Apache on Linux does not do that? > > Nope. The worker and event MPMs are hybrids: serving requests from > many processes, where each process has many threads. And if all > processes are busy, Apache will simply spin up more.
Ok, thank you for this hint! I am reading this now: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mpm.html >>> The Ruby interpreter is not thread-safe so mod_ruby creates a Big Mutex >>> whenever it needs to run. Thus on Windows, with its single-process >>> model, mod_ruby can only serve one request at a time. >> >> So you say, that mod_ruby on Windows can _not_ leverage its power >> because Apache on Windows is a single thread process? > > Effectively single-threaded when mod_ruby is serving a request, yes. So in other words, what I am trying to achieve - trying to have a big load of Traffic on Apache for Windows with mod_ruby - does not work the same way as it does for Linux because of Apache for Windows running in a single process with many threads. So it is back to the books then. Thank you for your help, Ben and Eric. Best Zeno
